The Crimean Ministry of Health ignored a request for heart valve
replacement surgery for Crimean Tatar activist and political prisoner
Amet Suleymanov. Instead, Suleymanov, as it turned out, was not even
included in the queue for the operation, but only in the “waiting
list”. This was reported in a comment for the “Crimea Platform” by
the wife of the civil journalist Amet Suleymanov, – Lilya Lyumanova.
Lumanova filed a request to the Ministry of Health in September, but
in the ministry’s response, which came on October 21, she was advised
that Amet “personally appear with the relevant documents for
examination and further decision on his surgery”.
Lyumanova noted: “That is, the text made it clear that he was taken
off the waiting list.”
According to her, back in 2021, they joined the queue for the
operation, hoping that it would be performed while Suleymanov was
under house arrest. However, the Ministry of Health suddenly removed
him from the queue, and the woman filed a complaint with the Crimean
prosecutor’s office, trying to find out the reasons for this decision.
Suleymanov, who is in serious condition, has repeatedly suffered from
high blood pressure, nosebleeds, shortness of breath and dizziness.
Due to his sedentary lifestyle, he is also prone to blood clots.
However, in July, the Vladimir Regional Court refused to release the
Crimean Tatar from detention, despite the fact that his illnesses are
incompatible with detention in correctional facilities.
Let us remind that citizen journalist Amet Suleymanov was taken under
arrest on April 6. Before that, he was under house arrest. On April
26, he was deprived of the necessary medicines, despite the fact that
his doctors had prescribed him a heart valve replacement surgery and
had prescribed all the necessary medicines themselves. On August 29,
it became known that Suleymanov was transferred to the territory of
the Russian Federation.